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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Winter
(UVa)
Sent: 11 January 2008 13:05
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: twoway area with no outline along the baseline
Scott,
Yes indeed; that is roughly what I meant in my option (2) about adding
fake observations. That may be the best way to go . . .
Cheers
Nick
Scott Merryman wrote:
> Nick,
>
> Do you mean something like this?
>
> sysuse auto,clear
> qui {
> count
> set obs `=`=r(N)' + 2'
> sum weight
> replace wei = r(min) in `=r(N) + 1'
> replace mpg = 0 in `=r(N) + 1'
> sort weight mpg
> sum weight
> replace we = r(max) in l
> replace mpg = 0 in l
> }
> twoway area mpg weight,sort color(gs14) fin(100) ///
> || line mpg weight ,sort lc(black) ///
> || , legend(off)
>
>
>
> Scott
>
>
> On Jan 10, 2008 3:37 PM, Nick Winter (UVa) <[email protected]>
wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> As part of a more complex graph I'm trying to construct, I want to
>> create a -twoway area- plot that lacks the outline along the
baseline.
>> THat is, I want the outline along the "peaks" of the area, as well as
>> along the vertical drops down to the baseline at the minimum and
>> maximum of the data, but I do not want the outline along the baseline
itself.
>>
>> The two approaches that occur to me are:
>>
>> (1) overwrite the baseline with an appropriate -twoway line-, with
>> the line color set to the fill color of the area plot. THe problem
>> here is that when the area plot gets very close to the baseline, the
>> outline of the peaks can get overwritten as well if it is close
>> enough to baseline at some point along the area.
>>
>> (2) create the area plot with no outline (that is, with the outline
>> the same color as the fill), then create the outline with -twoway
line-.
>> This does not create the vertical drops to the baseline at the min
>> and max of the data without adding fake observations.
>>
>> I could do (1) and then (2), using (2) to re-create the line wherever
>> it might be overwritten in step (1), but that seems inelegant at
best...
>>
>> Any other ideas?
>>
>> --Nick Winter
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